Later, in front of all the members of the KGB Presidium, Serov talked about his plan with a blank face, involving the gym equipment, pools, and spacing between buildings, as well as the attached self-selected stores, mailbox settings and security systems, and all the members of the KGB Presidium looked at each other.

"Chairman, this involves the cooperation of many departments, the amount of cement, the mixing of steel, and the wood!" Itvasov said, "I'm not against this proposal, we all know it's a good thing, but the cost is huge, let's take our time!" ”

"Wood? Even if the size of our KGB doubles, there is no need to worry about timber. I have already called the secretary of the Primorsky Territory Party Committee, the head of the State Security Bureau, and the head of the General Directorate of Internal Affairs, and I will not sell a single piece of timber to the Japanese this year, no matter how much money he pays, if he does not sell it, he will not sell it! Serov snorted angrily, "I'll communicate with the relevant departments, and a special amount of money has been allocated to build a house in this year's financial allocation!" ”

Admiral Itvasov shook his head and smiled bitterly, it seems that the remarks that have been circulating in the past few days are true, and his chairman has been completely angry because of the price reduction of the Japanese side, so he began to promote the construction of KGB housing, and insisted on eating all the backlog of wood.

"A telegram was sent to the National Security System stating that from now on, all spouses who work in the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the same time will not be allowed to divorce. Start counting the number of people involved and the floor space required, and my topic is over! Serov, though he said so, did not actually take down the drawings from the table.

This gesture naturally indicates that this issue needs to be discussed, so the other members of the KGB Presidium continued to talk about this issue, and with the level of these people, they naturally do not worry about the housing issue, but they also have friends, relatives, and some subordinates, and those people are not cadres at the level of the director of the General Directorate or above, so they are actually very supportive of this housing issue, and the benefits are all the millions of KGB members, plus the people who benefit from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are all over the Soviet Union.

At the beginning, Itvasov's statement was actually just casual talk, he knew Serov's character very well, knew that his opposition would basically not work, and even took out the drawings and said that it would be no problem, just a symbolic reminder not to have a hot head, and he was also very supportive in his heart.

"The Japanese don't know much about the character of our Chairman Serov, and on some occasions they threaten our chairman, and the usual result is that the chairman would rather have indigestion than make the other party feel bad, and this housing plan is Chairman Serov's action to sweep away the backlog of wood!" After the meeting, the head of the General Military Administration, Roman, and the head of the General Traffic Administration, Lieutenant General Kibanov, chatted casually.

"But this is a good thing, you don't see that the house that the chairman took out is very large, one-third larger than the current general community housing area, and the news will spread to other departments It is estimated that the meeting will be discussed for a while!" Lieutenant General Kibanov laughed and said, "I don't know what the expression of the Japanese who are waiting for the import of timber will be now!" ”

In the sixties, Japan was still in the stage of sweatshops, domestic high-polluting factories abounded, far from the appearance of later generations, Japan's paper industry is quite strong, Prince Paper ranked in the top ten of the world's paper industry, because of the geographical relationship has been importing wood from the Soviet Union, this time the preparation to lower the price of wood is also Prince Paper in the Far East Office to see the Soviet Union after the decision to reclaim.

After the meeting of the Presidium of the National Security Council, a resolution was passed by Serov to send a presidential order to all the security organs: "Don't play tricks on the anti-rebels below, someone is watching you." Report the local housing gap immediately......"

When the news came, the KGB became the object of discussion in various departments of Moscow, but unlike the usual ridicule, this time many of them were discussed with envy, and even the KGB and the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were discussing this matter after work.

"Ivan, you husband and wife are both from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I heard that your chairman ordered all the comrades in the department to change housing, this time your luck is really good!" At the door of an apartment, Ivan's neighbor said when he saw the couple greeting them after work.

"Yes, our chairman issued a presidential order for all personnel to fill in the report, if it weren't for the merger of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB, we may not be able to get this light this time, and my wife and I can only get a house when the fly in the ointment is a fly in the ointment." Ivan answered the neighbor's question with a smile, and was pinched by his wife.

"Then you can divorce and get two houses to remarry, isn't this an extra house!" Ivan's neighbor's eyes rolled and he said, "This can also be planned for the future." ”

"Our chairman has thought about this issue for a long time, and I hope that comrades in other places will not think that the chairman can't reach them, our chairman is not easy to deceive, and he regrets being discovered." Ivan's wife picked up the key and prepared to open the door, "When we move out, this house will be vacated for comrades from other departments to move in, and I am a little reluctant to live for a long time......"

These rumors were only spread among the ordinary staff of some departments, and compared with these remarks, the cadres of other departments were very curious about the reaction of the chairman of the KGB to the Japanese price reduction, and they really did not know what the Japanese had done to make the Soviet minister, the most unprovoked minister, directly fever his head.

"Hey, have you heard? The State Security Service on the Primorsky side of Primorsky Krai ordered the forestry bureaus to sink all the excess timber into the lake, and I heard that it was the chairman of the KGB Serov who ordered not a single log to be sold to the Japanese. The voice was full of schadenfreude, "The KGB presidium decided to use all the logs that were reclaimed for building materials!" ”

"I heard that, it seems that because the Japanese office in Primorsky Krai found out that the local area was being reclaimed and lowered the price, the local cadres reported it to the rubyyanka, and they didn't look at who the owner of the rubyyanka was, and when did they suffer a loss?"

"These words are talked about in private, and don't talk about other departments during working hours!" Chernenko pushed the door in and glanced around the secretariat, as Brezhnev's chief butler, Chernenko also played a unique role in the Supreme Soviet.

After checking the work, Chernenko left, and sent today's report to the office of the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Brezhnev, who happened to be not on the side of the secretariat, but sat firmly on the Diaoyu Tai as if waiting for something.

"Chairman, didn't you go to the Secretariat today?" Chernenko asked a little strangely, since Brezhnev became secretary of the Central Committee again, he was usually on the side of the Secretariat at this time, and he would return to the Supreme Soviet in the afternoon.

"Oh, I'm waiting for a guest? You'll know when you come! Seeing Chernenko's puzzled gaze, Brezhnev gently added that Chernenko, as the chief steward of the Supreme Soviet, would definitely know if anyone came. And he didn't know that someone was coming, so it was strange.

Brezhnev shook his head secretly, not necessarily all guests will be the first to file, Chernenko can only work from the arrangement above the report, which is not a good thing. It is necessary to know what others need in their work, and who will come to the door at this time, and it is estimated that Chernenko will strengthen this aspect.

At this time, the phone on Brezhnev's desk rang, picked it up and agreed twice, showing an unsurprising look, Brezhnev put down the phone and said, "Yura is here, directly let the people from the secretariat lead it to my office, Chernenko, you go and arrange it first!" ”

"Comrade Andropov?" Chernenko went down with a puzzled look, Brezhnev had a gentle work style, liked to call people by nicknames, and there were two people in Yura's mouth, one was Andropov and the other was Serov.

As soon as Serov entered Brezhnev's office, he saw Brezhnev's indifferent look, the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Brezhnev said knowingly, "Yura, there must be something to do when you come to our Supreme Soviet, see if I have anything to help you!" ”

"That's right, I need the help of the Housing Public Utilities Committee, the Building Materials Industry Committee, the relevant formalities and regulations, so I came to the Supreme Soviet and hoped that the chairman would help us solve it!" The Housing Public Service Committee was a subordinate department of the Supreme Soviet and was not under the control of Kochykin.

"Ah, the KGB is preparing to expand housing, right! Hear something! Brezhnev looked like he had just learned the news, and said mildly, "I will talk to the comrades of the two departments about this matter, and you tell the KGB not to worry, it will be soon!" I heard that the KGB invited professors from the Institute of Architecture to plan the housing drawings together, and when the time comes, I will personally attend to witness the comrades of the security services entering the new home......"

"This is really good news, and on behalf of all the comrades of the KGB, I thank the chairman!" Serov, who was elated on the surface, sighed, your status is already so high, are you still tired of winning people's hearts anytime and anywhere?

Vladivostok Primorsky Krai local party committee building, a haggard yellow man came out of it lonely, after several days of pleading he finally met the secretary of the Primorsky Krai party committee, asked about the export of timber this year, in previous years this matter was very smooth, but the news just heard made people not happy, "Mr. Fujita, I can't make a decision on this matter, all the logs have been detained, it is the order of the chairman of the KGB Serov on the Moscow side, if you don't work hard, You can go to the Lubyanka and talk to Chairman Serov about ......" (To be continued. )